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Sun Open-Sources Java UI Toolkit

Posted by Soulskill on from the knowledge-is-power dept.

ruphus13 writes "As the mobile space heats up, Sun has released the source code for Java Lightweight UI Toolkit under the GPL v2 license. ZDNet quotes Sun's senior director of embedded software saying, 'By creating LWUIT, Sun is reaffirming its commitment to the mobile development community and by open-sourcing the LWUIT code, we are enabling mobile developers to quickly and easily create rich, portable interfaces for their applications -- functionality that they have been requesting for some time.' Will Adobe follow suit?" Sun is also working on some fixes to holes in their mobile Java platform, which were discovered by a Polish researcher who demanded €20,000 to disclose the information.

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  1. Re:And this is bad why??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You know what??? GOOD FOR HIM.

    Who said it was a he?

    The English language. References to persons of generic or indeterminate gender are properly phrased 'he'. Tortured phrasings such as '[s]he', 'he/she', and (the worst) alternating 'he' and 'she' when referencing the same speaker are recent innovations which solve a nonexistent problem.

  2. Re:LWUIT vs JavaFX vs Plasma by digiti · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well LWUIT could use the iPhone theme but then Sun would get sued. No point in deriding a technical project on the lack of a full time UI designer...
    The text in the 3D cube in newer versions of LWUIT is anti-aliased, its still not as smooth as it can be but it runs on pretty much every phone out there.
    Furthermore, it will look better with newer devices while still supporting existing 50$ phones.

    Plasma, iPhone, Android etc. are all great but LWUIT runs today on a billion shipping phones... I doubt any of the above would ever make that number.

    See some of the newer demos and videos here:
    http://lwuit.blogspot.com/